CHAM 2021

Lamine GHARBI

President
French Federation of private hospitalization - FHP

France

Lamine Gharbi has chaired the Federation of Private Hospitalization (FHP) since June 25, 2014. He is a pharmacist by profession, and he is the founding president of «Cap Santé», a regional group that brings together 13 private health facilities.
The FHP represents more than 1000 private clinics and hospitals in France, which provide care for 9 million patients annually. Approximately 150,000 employees (healthcare, administrative and technical).

Pradip SEWOKE

Cardiologist; President
ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS OF NORTH FRANCHE-COMTÉ

France

Pradip Sewoke must have dreamed harder than anyone to become the reference cardiologist he is now in Franche-Comté and beyond.
On his deathbed, his father showed him his path: he wanted his son to heal people. The family is penniless, the 11-year-old has 8 brothers and sisters and lives far from medical schools in Mauritius but no one will stop him from realizing this vision. At the age of 25, he had the opportunity, thanks to his involvement in associations, to come to France. With only 300 francs in his pocket, he entered the Faculty of Medicine in Dijon and then the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. He worked to finance his studies and went on to specialize in cardiovascular pathology at the Besançon University Hospital and obtained a university degree at the Créteil-Paris University Hospital.

He was asked by the hospital of Belfort to set up the interventional cardiology service, coronography and coronary angioplasty. He serves the public hospital until August 2014͘. He then went into private practice but continues to work regularly in nuclear medicine at the North Franche-Comté Hospital. He is also the referring cardiologist for the coronography and angioplasty unit of the Mulhouse clinic of the Diaconat Foundation.

He founded the association of Young Cardiologists of Franche-Comté, was elected Head of the list of the Council of the Order of Physicians of the Territory of Belfort. He created and is Chair of the association Cardiologues sans Frontières, became patron of the French Federation of Cardiology of Belfort, honorary President of the Belfort Glacis-Handiboxe Boxing Club and international coordinator for Europe of the association GOPIO (Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin). Each year he organizes conferences bringing together about a hundred health professionals from the Franche-Comté region around public health themes: artificial heart, statins, etc.

Concerned about the medical future of the northern Franche-Comté region, which is in the process of becoming desertified, he is the founder of two large-scale health centers (4000 m2 each) that he wants to be as close as possible to the needs of the population while remaining at the cutting edge of technology. Thus, at the end of 2020, the largest MSP (care home) in France is inaugurated in Belfort, with approximately 80 professionals. The one in Montbéliard will be operational before the end of 2022 and is already filled with about 50 general practitioners, specialists, surgeons, radiologists, dentists and other health professionals, as well as an unscheduled care center.